Not clear that an event is in-progress

Bug #1588376 reported by Sam Bull
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Canonical System Image
Confirmed
Undecided
Alejandro J. Cura
Ubuntu UX
New
Undecided
Unassigned
indicator-datetime (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

When it is just past the start time of an event, the indicator lists that event as 'x minutes ago'. At an initial glance, this doesn't look much different from an event scheduled in the future, and takes me a couple of seconds to register that the event is in-progress.

After an hour or so, the event is simply listed with its start time, which looks identical to a future event, and takes even more time to process that it is an in-progress event.

Proposed solution: An in-progress event should display its time as 'Now'.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in indicator-datetime (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

I suppose it should also say "Past" when an event has ended.

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → Bill Filler (bfiller)
status: New → Confirmed
assignee: Bill Filler (bfiller) → Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)
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Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer) wrote :

I assumed past events would be removed from the indicator (it's not late enough in the day for me to have seen that yet).

What use is showing previous old events in the upcoming events section of the indicator? It can't imagine how that would ever be useful.

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Sam Bull (dreamsorcerer) wrote :

Yeah, I can confirm a past event is removed from the indicator, so no need for a 'Past', only a 'Now'.

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